#is just I associated radio with cecil really hard

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"RADIO KILLED THE VIDEO STAR"

I scream to a crowd, bloodstones organized in a ritualistic way. The stones start to glow. That's it my spell worked!!

"Not bad, kid." Alastor from Hazbin Hotel says to me. I don't care if he will kill me for it, I push him away.

Behind him, looking confused but still equiped with mobile radio station, Cecil Gerswhin Palmer looks at me. "I'm like your biggest fan" I say to him. Alastor is fuming. I don't care. My silly radio man is going to give me an autograph!!

Before Alastor kills me, @pharoahkittylover appears out of nowhere. "Badger?" I say in confusion because she lives in a whole different country. My ritual truly was a really good teleporter. "Alastor!!!" She says happily. "I'm a huge fan." The radio demon perks up. He won't kill us... For now.

My ritual was a complete sucess.

[nukuome]

1) Either Revisionist History or The Adam Carolla Show bc they were on my dad's ipod.. but my first fictional podcast was the two princes

2) Only once- TMA, the buried episode with Daisy, and i started crying specifically when she said "Not alone, though" and it got worse when she talked asking for comfort

3) Dog from Deviser for sure

4) this is a hard one, but probably Malevolent

5) That was Malevolent for the first 3 seasons for me, I couldn't remember any of the plot other than key moments like coma, kellin, and John is kiy reveal (and I even struggle to remember how they got there, I think the hotel? I can't remember)

6) I feel like Helen and Kayne would meet for an afternoon tea

7) idk why, but I feel like Son and Cecil would NOT get along at all

8) I would get Peter lucas' and elias' voices confused sometimes

9) Arthur Lester hands down

10) Pretty much all of the plot-driven ones tbh, except wtnv only bc I find it more comforting relistening to it

11) I've relistened to Deviser like 3 times now in full but that's bc it's pretty short. I do relisten to specific episodes of other podcasts all the time tho (also if we're counting radio dramas.. I've listened to the Watership down one like 4 times in full)

12) MALEVOLENT AND DEVISER!!! !!

13) I'm usually riding the bus or doing miscellaneous tasks like organizing my stickers, but I also put on TMA when Im sewing or painting clothes

14) Jonathan Sims my beloved wet cat 🥰🥰🥰

15) ooohhh my god.. FUCK Eddie man

16) I heavily associate TMA with the violent things album by the brobecks, and whenever I hear Boring I imagine this series animatic I really wanna make

17) Malevolent and TMA live in my head rent free and I can't evict them if I wanted to

18) ouuuuggh.... probably........ idk I can't think of a podcast that I wish I never heard. I guess Adam Carolla can be an asshole but I wouldn't say I like, REGRET ever hearing it

(Edit: I actually DO regret listening to the magnus archives, but more so the method I listen to the series. I binged most of which led to me not really absorbing it very well. Like, I finished all of season 4 and 10 episodes of season 5 without stopping for anything other than sleep. Also I would listen to most of the series (1-3) at night, in the winter, with no one home but my dog and I. Lets just say... paranoia got actually detrimental to my health bc I was convinced people were in my house or waiting to kill me at all times :D)

19) oooo.. I've gotta say Cecil and Carlos bc they're just so cute together <3

(also, I don't get Jmart. Idk man, I just can't really find the chemistry outside of the "blinding frees us, let's go together" and even the end of episode 159 felt more like establishing a friendship rather than lovers uniting at long last. And even in season 5 it just.. idk. I can't see it. I think I just need more interactions with them pre season 4 and 5. But then again I can't see the connection between Sophie and Howl so..)

20) Many: Kayne, Michael & Helen (distortions), and Cecil for sure

I need to listen to more podcasts, I'm in the middle of season 1 from wolf359 and I wanna start listening to camp here and there and red valley. I've also heard good things about midnight burger.

Podcast themed ask game cause I’m bored!

1.) what’s the first podcast you listened to?

2.) what’s a podcast you’ve cried over?

3.) Favorite podcast pet? (Idk if that’s worded weird but like if one of the characters has a cat or smth)

4.) what podcast has the best soundtrack/music?

5.) what’s a podcast that you really like but find it kinda hard to follow the plot?

6.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would be friends?

7.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would hate each other?

8.) what’s a podcast where you mix up the characters voices?

9.) what’s a podcast that you know the characters so well you can recognize their breathing?

10.) what’s a podcast that you wish you could listen to again for the first time?

11.) what’s a podcast you’ve listened to more than once?

12.) what’s a podcast you wish more people listened to?

13.) what do you like to do while listening to a podcast?

14.) who is a podcast character that you love?

15.) who is a podcast character you can’t stand?

16.) what songs do you associate with a certain character/ podcast?

17.) what’s a podcast that you can’t stop thinking about?

18.) are their any podcasts that you regret listening to?

19.) whose your favorite podcast couple?

20.) whose a podcast character that you think would dress really cool?

[daedaluscried]

@pcrticlvcid​ made a post about Cecil having a pokemon team of entirely cute pokemon and for some reason it highkey inspired me to build a team, so here we go.

Rules:

1) THEY MUST BE CUTE. NO EXCEPTIONS (Granted, this is based off my concept of cute, but for the most part I think I did it)

2) No ice types! Ice types would not do well in a small desert community. I also tried to avoid water types for a similar reason, but I was not as fast and hard on that.

3) Preference towards dark, ghost, and psychic because they felt more similar to Cecil to me. Honestly, Cecil would go bonkers for fairy types, but it was almost too easy to make a team of cute fairy types so I pushed back against the desire for fairies.

4) At least one cat-like Pokemon in honor of Khoshekh (Sort of cheated here, but a lot of the cat pokemon aren’t that cute????)

Under the cut for pictures

Noibat - It’s associated with soundwaves and that felt very radio to me.

Espurr - Espurr doesn’t really look like a cat to me??? But it’s feline and it has purr in the name, so we’re going for it. Also, they have intense psychic powers and look into your soul.

Litwick - It was between Litwick and Phantump for “cute ghost pookemon” and the candles just felt more Cecil to me. Look at that spooky candle. I love them.

Zorua - A dark type that displays itself differently than its true self? Very Cecil to me, prove me wrong.

Either Espeon or Umbreon - I couldn’t decide between these two. I know I said a preference for Dark types, but Espeon also... has big Cecil energy and aesthetic to me.

Solosis - Carlos has a Reuniclus (the evolved form) because Solosis is the most sciency pokemon that doesn’t feel like... mad/evil science, so Cecil got a Solosis out of admiration for his husband.

[ramrodd]

What was Ayn Rand wrong about?

COMMENTARY:

Daniel Kaplan gets it about right: her system of thought is crap, but it appeals to Conservative libertarians because it doesn’t require critical thinking but a heroic capacity for memorizing slogans and sound bites.

I will say this in her defense: she is an example of the American Dream and the mythology of pulling oneself up by their boot straps. If her mother hadn’t obtained a visa for her to go to Chicago, she would have ended up in the Gulag as a reactionary. And, when she gets to America, her story is really quite remarkable, including becoming something of a mascot for Cecile B DeMille, then running the wardrobe shop for a major movie production company, writing and presenting a mystery drama on Broadway and building a publishing and lecture enterprise with her lover, Nathan Branden, that has had significant political impact associated with the January 6 conspiracy.

And that’s all the defense she gets from me.

John Galt is a domestic terrorist engaged in dismantling the administrative state. just like Steve Bannon and Newt Gingrich.

“Atlas Shrugged” has been a template for what has become the January 6 conspiracy. It also captures the continuing subversion of very rich people, like the Koch brothers and William F. Buckley, to FDR and the New Deal.

My thesis about Atlas Shrugged is that it is Ayn Rand’s version of the Russian Revolution if she had been in charge. The whole thing about “Who is John Galt” represents the anticipation of the return of Lenin from Paris to lead the insurrection, which is why 2/3rds of the narrative occurs before Galt’s radio broadcast, which compares in the quality of its thought to the UniBomber’s manifesto that was published and led to his capture.

If I was teaching History and Moral Science at West Point, I would require the cadets to read Atlas Shrugged as a prerequisite and if they really, really loved the novel, the chances are they are hard-wired Fascists like Doug Mastriano or Mike Pompeo. Rand spoke at West Point in 1974 on the theme “Philosophy: Who Needs It?” (which is the title of one of her publications). As a consequence of the moral confusion that she represents and introduce into that cloistered community, 200 cadets were separated for Honors violations 2 years later and, to tell the truth, I’m not sure she hasn’t corrupted several generations of West Point grads current serving.

For example, David Petreaus was a senior when she spoke and some of his decisions have been pretty flakey. There was always the danger of the Nazification of the All Volunteer Military before the fact and Doug Mastriano is pretty solid evidence that the Nazification associated with the January 6 conspiracy going back to William F. Buckley’s 1960 anti-Eisenhower political manifesto, the Sharon Statement and his farm system of crypto-Nazi clones of the Young American Foundation should be self-evident to the independent observer.

I personally first ran into evidence of the Nazification of the US Army in 1995 during an informal OD performance audit of an Army headquarters that connects directly to the criminal Nazification of Donald T Regan’s Wall Street scheme he engineered as Treasury Secretary and Reagan’s COS with Merrill Lynch International that is in the mix of Part 2 of Mueller’s Russiagate investigation.

Now, that may seem to be a far remove from Ayn Rand, but she and William F. Buckley were something of a tag-team during the 60’s promoting what amounted to a reframed version of the John Birch Society’s agenda for blowing up the federal government and the New Deal. When you hear right-wing commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones committed to making Democrat presidents fail, that is purely John Birch Society sentiments going back to FDR. The entire purpose of Reaganomics has been to dismantle Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action in order to defend the Military Industrial Complex and prevent the evolution of economic policy to reflect the transition to the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix made possible by Apollo 11.

The thing is that virtually the entire Boomer generation, liberals and conservatives, have adopted the post-modern historical deconstruction of dialectical Marxism: if you can’t fix an element of a narrative with historic certainty, it doesn’t exist. This is especially true of the debate between Pro-Life Christian apologists and evangelical anti-theists like Richard Dawson and Richard Carrier. Marx is a materialist and, among other things. his economics discards the moral elements of capitalism that make capitalism work, such as synergies and cash flows. Like Ayn Rand’s version of capitalism, Marxism is economic theology which violates the 4th Law of Logic in the name of logical integrity

The 4th Law of Logic establishes the principle that paradox cannot be reduced. Both Marxism and the 18th Amendment violate this principle. This principle has always been in operation, but has been ignored because there wasn’t any mathematics or language for examining chaos until Isaac Newton developed his calculus to measure systems in motion. As a consequence, the relationship between Kant’s Categorical Imperative and Hegel’s dialectical synthesis is determined by the 4th Law of Logic, which neither Hegel or Marx seem to recognize at the time. Supply Side economics represents a violation of the 4th Law of Logic and both Soviet Marxism and Reaganomics are Supply-Side economics, which is how the Conservative libertarians have been able to introduce Nazification into American culture.

Which brings us back to Ayn Rand. To understand how her Fascist sophistry works, read “The Virtue of Selfishness”. Her entire ethical structure rests on her dishonest presentation of the definition of “selfishness” as being “concern with one’s self interests”, which is exactly half of the Webster definion, the second half being the clause “without regard to others”.

You see this sort of singularity of virtue throughout Conservative libertarian, including the decisions of the Fascist majority in SCOTUS, with politicians like Rand Paul, who always claim their proposals arise from high moral principle, and the Pro-Life Evangelical litmus test for male righteousness being consistent with the TULIP doctrine of Calvinism, generally, and the Presbyterian Church, in particular.

The TULIP doctrine rests squarely on the Total Depravity of EVE which is a legacy of the misrepresentation of God by Moses in regards to women that kept Moses from entering the Promised Land at the end of Deuteronomy. It’s taken mankind 4000 years to get to the 19th Amendment to sort that shit out and Sam Alito can’t understand the female parts to the 19th Amendment that makes Roe V Wade moot. In a truly Christian world, Planned Parenthood is the obvious, and rational, application for Mark 5:25 - 34. Pro-Life is totally an anti-constitutional mechanism for controlling women and a potent money pump for the Nazification of Christianity.

Former Army chaplain’s PhD dissertation reveals Southern Baptist blueprint to convert the military

In the final analysis, Atlas Shrugged is a political treatise disguised as a Harlequin novel, with the action of the narrative driven forward by the sexual promise of Dagny Taggart, who is, for my money, one of the most compelling characters in literature.

It’s useful to remember that Atlas Shrugged came out in 1956 at about the same time the first issue of Playboy appeared and it represented nearly all the requisite elements of a first rate stroke book of the era. The intimation is that Dagny fucks everybody in the book, but she doesn’t really achieve the Big O until John Galt’s logic and egoism proves to be the ultimate aphrodisiac.

One of the universal characteristics of the MAGA nation is their unholy emotional investment in the ideological crap of Reaganomics. It all starts with Ayn Rand. In her tangled epistemology, she defines her Pasion for Reason and accuses anyone who disagrees with her as being a “Hater of the Mind”, a meme that is echoed throughout the Nazification of the MAGA nation and Conservative libertarianism of the GOP.

[thimblings]

AHHH!! YES!! um. prepare your eyes, this is gonna be a long, rambly post because apparently i have A LOT OF FEELINGS and i can’t just list things like a normal person. and i also kept remembering podcasts and the list JUST KEPT GETTING LONGER. so. GIANT TEXT POST, i am so so so sorry. also, there are actually a few on this list that i’m not caught up with (some i’m like REALLY behind on) but i’m still gonna rec them... 

Welcome to Night Vale is the one i’m sure most ppl know of (although! if you have not read the novel, i’d HIGHLY recommend getting the audio book version. Cecil Baldwin does a great job of reading, and the “Voice of Night Vale” sections actually feature guest stars. i really want Cecil to do more audio book recordings omg). but!! along that same theme (radio show in a strange town w/ supernatural themes), King Falls AM is spectacular (ben and sammy are just! a freakin delight i love them). IMO it starts off feeling like it’s trying to be like WTNV, but within a few episodes it finds itself and becomes something unique (i say this bc i was initially put off by the first episode for that reason, and later came back and gave it another shot and enjoyed it immensely). it’s funny, it made me cry a few times, and i reaallyyy really really need to catch up with it. sammy stevens also has….just….a really nice voice hahaaaa The Truth is a great one. it’s mostly one-off short stories, but they’re generally really high quality and the plot of most of the episodes is really thought-provoking or just interesting in general (there’s one ep about aliens who find the Voyager craft with its recording that’s just really charming to me). the tagline “movies for your ears” is really apt. a lot of the stories veer on the side of unsettling/creepy, and it’s great if you like horror stories. i’d also recommend The Black Tapes and its sister podcast, Tanis. i love horror and unsettling mysteries, so these are right up my alley (Tanis is definitely more in the sci-fi/horror genre, but i like how it also digs into real unsolved cases and events). these are relatively well known, at least in that my friends who don’t listen to podcasts have listened to TBT at least. but they’re still great to check out if you haven’t. Limetown is really good, but ends on a cliffhanger and as far as i know there’s no immediate plans for a season 2? (i remember reading something about  them in talks for a TV show? which would be cool, but i’d miss the audio format of it). the first season is worth listening to, because it is really interesting and the audio production is pretty top notch - just be aware that a second season may or may not happen. what i’ve listened to of Hadron Gospel Hour so far is SUPER enjoyable, but i’ve only listened to the first few episodes.  arsPARADOXICA is FANTASTIC (at least the first season and a half that i’ve listened to). sally grissom is a great character and a brilliant and  scientist and i’m just really in love with her. this is a nice podcast because it has very capable women in it and the concept overall is really fascinating and handled really well. The Cleansed, set in a post-apocalyptic US, is well written and overall well produced (there’s one ep that still sits with me, because of a scene that truly unnerved me, just in the music and the atmosphere and the dialogue just ahh) and i’ve been meaning to pick it up again. In that same vein there’s We’re Alive, which is of the zombie variety. i’ve only juuuuust dipped into that one, but i’ve enjoyed what i’ve heard so far. this one has been around for a long time, like WTNV, so there’s a lot of episodes and a lot of content available. THE BRIGHT SESSIONS! i’m really really fond of this one and i just really love it, please listen. it’s about a psychologist who works with people who have “special” abilities, and all of the patients she helps are just so! precious!! i just love them a lot. Wooden Overcoats is a GREAT podcast that is pretty much the audio version of all my favorite British comedies that i watched growing up (think Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served?, etc). it’s a comedy podcast about two competing funeral parlors (one of which is owned by the Funn’s). it’s exactly my kind of humor, and everyone involved just seems really great and kind. Antigone Funn has great lines and HONESTLY i’m surprised i haven’t seen more people quoting her and this podcast because it’s just! really great. and i don’t THINK this is a sister podcast to WO, but i always associate the two because they have some of the same people working on them but - Hector vs The Future is great. again, i haven’t listened to many episodes, but i’d still recommend it. it’s slightly different than other podcasts on this list because it’s actually filmed/recorded in front of a live audience. Homecoming is a short podcast (only 6 eps and the eps are pretty short) that i THINK is meant to be part of a larger, written universe (which i want to check out). it’s about soldiers with PTSD. this one actually has some well-known people involved - both Oscar Isaac and David Schwimmer voice characters and do a great job. The Darkest Night is another one with big names involved - Lee Pace is the narrator, which alone makes it worth checking out. overall, i’ve enjoyed it, but some episodes veer into areas i was kind of uncomfortable with (Tic-Tac-Toe is the one i’m stuck on and why i haven’t finished it yet ahh).  AND OK i really really really like space and space stories and space adventures, so my favs all have that in common hahaha Wolf359 is kind of like. okay, it’s about three people and an AI on a space station, light years away from earth - and the communications officer records his reports by pretending he’s doing a radio show. it starts off fun and humorous and things are great and then before you know it, you are going to be driving from Wichita Falls to Dallas and have to pull off on the side of the road because you’ve started sobbing while listening to it in your car. this podcast is fantastic, with a great cast of characters and strong women and DOUG EIFFEL and just. it’s very good. (i am ashamed to admit that i’m actually SUPER behind on this one. p much, i’m at the point where kepler and crew are on board but i’m only a few eps into this storyline). THIS is actually the podcast that really got me on board with the whole audio drama scene and just like….SCOURING the internet for more that would captivate me in the same way. This one is actually ending with this last season, which i think is a good thing? it’s very plot and character focused and i’m glad that they’re telling a complete story and HONESTLY! i’m just really excited to see where everyone involved goes from here. EOS_10!!!!! similar to Wolf359, it’s about a space station. there are a LOT more people there though (it’s more like an intergalactic hub). it’s about a doctor, his recovering alcoholic doctor-boss who he’s trying to help, a nurse who is spunky and maybe a bit psychotic, a hypochondriac alien-former-prince, and a “alleged” “terrorist” living in the cargo bay. idk this podcast just makes me incredibly happy. the writing is witty and fun, the characters are lovable and flawed, and i’ve listened to the whole two seasons at least 3 times because it just fills me with joy (my favorite dynamic always: assholes who are friends and they love each other but they also just….insult each other constantly. and somehow they save the world? but they’re still assholes). the universe of this show is really interesting without ever feeling like an info dump, and the unfolding mystery is very intriguing. WARNING: this show has been on hiatus for awhile, so there are only two seasons right now. but honestly??? it’s completely worth it. (obvi i’m hoping a third season will eventually come, but i enjoyed the first two enough that i love it regardless haha). and, finally, my current obsession. The Penumbra Podcast. it’s pretty much everything i’ve ever wanted in a series ever - detective film noir, but in space (on Mars), and literally everyone is queer. there’s a main story line (”Juno Steel and the [blank]”) and then one shots between each Juno story. the one shots are fantastic and really show the strength of the writers - sometimes being creepy, other times just being entertaining. The Juno Steel stories are the main running plot, done in the style of old detective radio shows - but also kind of twisting and upgrading the genre to be more inclusive and diverse. Juno Steel is a canonically non-binary and bisexual private eye (also canonically grumpy, sad most of the time, and a huge nerd who laughs at his own awful jokes in HIS OWN MONOLOGUES), and is the type of character you want to punch for being frustrating but who you also want to just…be…happy and protect from the universe. the writing in this is fantastic and beautiful and all of the characters are captivating. even one-off characters have a ton of personality and just add to the diversity/representation of the show. the voice work is top-notch and just!!! it’s so good!!!!! i have so many feelings!!!! (Juno hits close to home for me, with his self-esteem issues and depression and just…yeah, so i gushed about him there. i have a lot of feelings about the other characters but i’ve seriously rambled so much already so I WILL REFRAIN. also? gushing TOO much about a certain someone spoils the enjoyment of getting to know them at the same time Juno does) i REALLY enjoy audio drama-type podcasts so that’s mostly what i listen to. i’m also really into true crime and weird theories and occult stuff, but i’m particular about the podcasts i listen to for that. basically, i get attached to a specific host(s) and it’s hard for me to listen to anyone else talk about similar things haha. so as far as that goes, i love The Last Podcast on the Left (haha i get a bit nervous rec’ing this one because it’s really offensive, mostly in the early eps, and is def not for everyone but honestly!! i just love these boys a lot, and they discuss p much everything i’d ever be interested in ever). this one also led me to listen to Page Seven, which is celebrity gossip but honestly just really enjoyable to me. Two of the hosts from that show (Marcus is a LPOTL host as well) also do another show called Sex and Other Human Activities, which i’ve listened to a bit and enjoyed and deals with a lot of different issues - like sex, but also delving into depression and different things the hosts and their friends have gone through. but as far as non-fiction podcasts go, that’s pretty much it? i’m still planning on checking out Radio Dispatch, but that’s honestly mostly because it’s Molly (from Page Seven) and her brother and like i said, i have a problem. other podcasts i know of and have been meaning to check out: Hello From the Magic Tavern, The Adventure Zone, Pleasuretown, Lesser Gods, Tales of THATTOWN..... and ok, probably others but this has gotten excessive i am so sorry friends (some of the links may accidentally be wrong and i am very sorry)

[readymades2002]

lilstinky replied to your post our apartment flooded yesterday and dealing with...

thats really scary im sorry!!!!! Please tell me about nightvale i surprisingly know very little about it

awh its alright! it was thankfully pretty contained and shortlived its just the aftermath being annoying thats getting me ^^;; in like a week or so it’ll probably be over so i’m just waiting till then fhdk

*bass boosted* ALRIGHT so night vale is a podcast, which did not have the same looming feeling of dread associated with the format in 2012, and it’s about a weird desert town and the community radio station there and i am pretty sure it gave me Chronic Derealization Disease but its very good

HM. i think of it as a horror comedy podcast! it’s very surreal but that surrealism is rooted (or, at least, from here, FEELS rooted) in a common logic and meaning. it uses a LOT of poetry and prose, its very...its very hard to pin down, and it deliberately avoids being pinned down. its very much of the mindset that everything in the universe is frightening and strange and there is a lot of it you don’t understand, but there are people, and there are feelings, and there are words that you do. which, as far as it being based on All Conspiracy Theories Are True, i think that is kind of a neat approach to it. if you are of the mindset that conspiracies arise from fear of what you don’t understand (which, i mean, i guess it can be but its also usually racism and antisemitism), i guess i would also think a message of Here Are The Things That You Do Understand is comforting. and it is! its a good podcast, or at least the three years of it i have listened to have been good

it is not always Good (the resolution of the apache tracker storyline is simply, dare i say, Bad) and for some reason despite the creators directly attributing tumblr for the reason it blew up it took them a pretty long time to understand the concept of Gendern’t, but as a piece of media it is pretty good and like ive said even if the intent behind it was different it is very often pretty resonant politically. ive been thinking about collecting a few clips from it that Hit Right but also its 2020 who even wants to think about podcast politics anymore 

ALSO the narrator cecil is very good, i love listening to him and he’s an extremely fun character, and he is also gay, and even though he is occasionally a dipshit he is very endearing. LOVE him